This is now estimated at from $1,500,000,000 to $2,500,000,000.
What there will be left over in the way of Germany's ability to pay, aside from the Kiel Canal, Alsace and Lorraine, and German Poland, is problematical.
To have Germany able to pay even a part of the damage she is inflicting upon the world, she must be put back upon her industrial feet.
Therefore, I have declared, when asked about this matter, that in the end England would be found the best friend of Germany.

But conquered and destroyed must be the Prussian war-machine of aggression, or crumbles the art and industry of republican France and the democracy of English speech, thought, and government..